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Asthma, its varieties and complications, or, Researches into the pathology of disordered respiration; with remarks on the treatment applicable to each variety: illustrated by cases, and plates coloured from nature. Also, a succinct treatise on the principal diseases of the heart / by Francis Hopkins Ramadge.

Francis Hopkins Ramadge, Royal College of Physicians, London · 1847 · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847. · 2 pictures

A London medical treatise of 1847 by Francis Hopkins Ramadge on asthma, disordered respiration and diseases of the heart, written for physicians and illustrated with plates coloured by hand from dissected specimens. The plates show cut and diseased lungs in bruised purples, rose, ochre and grey-green, with tubercular clusters, opened bronchi and branching cavities, lettered with small reference keys against plain buff paper; useful for organic mottled colour fields, soft-edged washes and anatomical texture.

Asthma · Heart Diseases

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